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different: places, and thofe often dillant from one another above 
an hundred and twenty Leagues, do all kill equally. 
And, as to the bilious expirations of Vipers , which may inter- 
vene with the Jellow liquor and render it venomous, he faith, That 
that is nothing but the angred Spirits under a difguife. 
Now touching the enraged Spirits of Vipers , our Author^ 
though he calls theim Spiritual, or not Material, and maketh their 
Venom not vifible nor palpable , yet certainly he will be under- 
ftood to fpeak fo in comparifon to the Jellow liquor , which is a 
m/ti?k hody ; for, 'tis beyond all doubt, that thofe irritated Spi- 
rits are corpufcles, though not fjich as may be feen and handed 
like the faid liquor, norfuchasyou mayaffign a particular place 
to in the body of the.Viper, .where they lodge ; though it may be 
faid, that being raifed and fevered either fiom the mafs of the 
hloud, or rather from theiwhole^ habit of the body, they rende- 
vouze in the head, being ftirred up by the concuilion and great 
commotion, which the Viper feels in her whole body when vexed; 
wher-euppn follows an 'cagcrnefs of being revenged fjr the ill 
done them, and then a quickand fiery aftion of the Spirits thus 
enraged. Korean he mean , that thefe Spirits have neither place 
norextenfion; for,- how could they part from the Viper without 
liaving been in her body ; and,howcou3d they enter into the body 
of the Animal bitten without being there. . 
Further , to illuftrate his notion of the Idea of the Viper for ^ 
Revenge^ healledgeth the^magination of terrourby a Toad im- 
prefTed in a Ferret, which having feen and been feen by that ugly 
Animal at a certain feafonof the year, and that alwaies in Suir.mer^ 
cannot avoid running round about it , crying out aloud as if It 
caU'd for fuccour, whilft the Toad remains unmov'd with its 
throat open, andbeingat length, by that imagination, forced to 
furrender it felf into- that throat; as he affirms to have ftenhim- 
felf, and to have even kilFd the Toad at that very inftant, and fo 
faved the Ferre-t,which ran away.He alledgeth likewifea Mad Dbg 
who can communicate his malignity to all forts of Animals , none 
•excepted: Andwhy not then Vipers, conveigh their angry Spi- 
rits into fuch Animals as they meet with, and by them kill thofe. 
they have^^itten ? Which, he faith, they execute by the pertu: ba- 
stion and corruption, they introduce in the whole n^fs of bloud, 
forafmiich as they obftruft the circulation and communication of 
the 
